Converting multiple drawings to PDF

[Anonymous]

Sorry for posting this question here, but I've been searching for another way to contact you without any success.

We're currently developing an application to house our 20 year order history.

With thousands of DWG and DWF files, we are trying to find a way to easily view and share all of these drawings.

One option is using your Viewer API, and that is something that we will definitely look into. It is however a bit slow and too advanced

for our customers and the general user. We have converted a couple of files to PDF's, and have had nothing but positive feedback from our test panel.

Is there some piece of software that you could supply us for converting all of these drawings?

[k14348 · Accepted solution]

Use Inventor Task Scheduler

[k14348]

Use Inventor Task Scheduler

[Jef_E]

If.. you are creating an application. What is the goal? If I may ask?

The reason why I ask: Is the data on the .dwg static or does the chance exist that the content will change in the future? If this is the case, it may be wise to create the application in such a manner that an "On demand" export of the .pdf will serve serve you better? This could avoid potential not up-to-date .pdf files.

The export could even be ran from a non Inventor desktop by passing it to machine with inventor that does this operation on the background.

If you are building an application you have a programmer available so he/she could implement this? Maybe using Inventor Apprentice?

[Anonymous]

The goal is to have a simple and fast interface to access old drawings (and other files). The DWGs are static, so for speed purposes the best solution would be to have the PDFs already converted in advance. Will look into Inventor Apprentice!